Young Yugoslavia tour of Indonesia 1953

A Yugoslavian selection denoted as Mlada Jugoslavenska Reprezentacija
("Young Yugoslavia") played five matches on Java in August and September 1953,
including a match against the Indonesian national team which was considered
official by the PSSI (in accordance with contemporary FIFA regulations
stipulating that the host country decided on the status of a match).
The Yugoslav team consisted of 17 players, most of them under 25 (the oldest player
was centre half Vladimir Klaić, who celebrated his 28th birthday a few weeks after
the tour), and was also described as Yugoslavia B in local newspapers.
At the end of 1956, following the Olympics in Melbourne, three participants
(Ibrahim Biogradlić, Muhamed Mujić and Todor Veselinović) returned to
Indonesia when the full
Yugoslavia side toured Indonesia;
Mujić and Veselinović were also part of the
Yugoslavia B side touring Asia
between December 1955 and February 1956, playing three matches in Djakarta in January.

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